How is Morrigan good for Magneto over, say, Storm or Sentinel?
I see how it’s a good team, but I’m not seeing how it’s superb for Magneto in particular compared to other teams.
It’s not so much the best way to augment a point Magneto as it is the best team that has Magneto on point in it (to me at least). The problem with point Magneto teams is that they’re usually stuck with an underwhelming or unoptimized 2nd/anchor combination if you want to abuse his best assists (Missiles and Drones). The other combinations that may rival it are Dante/Sentinel, Doom/Amaterasu, Dorm/Doom, or Vergil/Doom since those combinations are definitely high tier in their own right. Alot of the other common shells people use for Magneto lose alot of steam once Magneto dies (Sentinel/Doom, Storm/Sentinel, etc.). While they’re not bad shells, they aren’t busted shells and have significant matchup problems.
If your anchor has a likelihood of being underwhelming, it’s assist contribution should be making both point and 2nd characters completely busted, and there’s little in this game that is more busted than Magneto/Doom and Morrigan/Doom. Missiles does practically everything Magneto needs for the most part and if Magneto dies, you still have a broken ass duo to work with. I feel that the Morri/Doom duo is the most oppressive shell when I compare it to the other shells that I feel make the best teams with a point Magneto (Dante/Sentinel, Doom/Amaterasu, Vergil/Amaterasu, Dorm/Doom, or Vergil/Doom). The only real significant problem that it has is that it doesn’t have access to a fullscreen assist sniping DHC…and it loses to Dorm.
So Ive been Playing Morridoom with Felicia as the anchor.
I love Felicia Anchor and Morrigan gets nasty Corner Unblockables with the low assist.
My Doom is ass currently but I don’t think Felicia’s low assist helps him very much once Morrigan dies.
Any thoughts on this team?
Felicia and Doom work better together if you use the Plasma Beam instead of Hidden Missiles.
So I want to play this frankenstein team of Morrigan/Dante/Akuma with a focus on rushdown since I don’t have any tracking assists for the lame stuff. My concern is that Morrigan at least combo wise doesn’t really get anything from these assists and that my damage output will be lackluster overall. Any suggestions?
From what I know off the top of my head, the only assists that get her some extra damage in combos are OTG assists and more unique things like Eye of Agamotto and such. I don’t factor in damage when I make teams based around Morrigan, but rather things that help her in her neutral game. If I’m going for damage I usually just TAC, as her Missile super doesn’t work very well as far as DHCing goes. I don’t think that team would be bad, but I don’t think it would be great either.
jam session lets you do soul drain in a combo, or activate astral vision mid-combo. idk what to do after activating astral vision, never played around with it, but i’m sure there’s something there.
abuse thc’s with million dollars, especially if you’re using shadow blade assist
Jam Session makes the solo c.H, 6H xx Soul Fist H xx Astral Vision, L Shadow Blade xx flight (whatever) combos much easier. Tatsu I don’t think you’ll really get much off of except a strong neutral assist.
So I want to pick up Morrigan, and right now have been playing Firebrand/Doom/Ammy, so I’m just gonna sub out firebrand for beautiful terrifying Morrigan. You guys think she can get it done without a physical assist as well as the missiles? That’s my only worry because I’ve seen how well things like Akuma tatsu work for Chris G…but I think playing ammy on point against bad matchups works well, Ammy has a lot of variability in how she can tackle a match and she can keepaway and build lots of meter, vail of mist dhc is a great way to start pressure too.
I’ve been playing Morrigan/Doom/Ammy for months now, and while the team is strong, I don’t like it in certain match-ups, particularly really aggressive characters, like Dante, Vergil, and Zero. Once Morrigan dies, all your really have left against those characters is the THC, but since most of the time I’ve used up my meter on AV I don’t have enough meter for that. If you’re going to play that team as a main team, I’d make sure to have a couple back-up plans, like maybe a Magneto/Morrigan/Doom team.
Okay I tried out Magneto/Morrigan/Doom instead of my usual order of Magneto/Doom/Morrigan and yes, the team actually does feel alot more stable + I usually still have plenty of meter to fuck around with when Morrigan hits the screen. For some reason though, I can’t seem to hit 1 million with the Tempest > Finishing Shower DHC. I’m doing corner Hyper Grav loops x4-5 with a Doom ender into Tempest > Finishing Shower. It’s doing like 940k right now which is just shy of killing Dantes, Wolverines, and Morrigans while Doom DHC did around 990k-1.05 million. How are you guy TODing them with Morrigan second? I might just not be mashing hard enough.
That would be my guess, but I really can’t say, since I can’t do Mag combos for shit. 940 should be killing Dante, iirc he’s a 900 not a 950.
I use morrigan viper strider . I played this dude who uses mags morri doom , deff effective. When i kill mag though its pretty much downhill from there due to morri giving viper meter and the astral strider lockdown
What exactly is your gameplan with that team? Because the stuff I have found just messing around with it is downright frightening. Also, what assists are you using?
Well, first and foremost, I have a crappy Doom. That being said, my gameplan has been zoning with Morrigan/missiles, and when the opponent gets close I either flee to the other side of the screen or try to mix them up. I’ve been trying to rushdown more recently, but I can only play matches once a week so I don’t get too many matches in. If I land a hit with Morrigan, I usually TAC into Doom. Once Morrigan dies, I zone with air Photon Shots or start to tridash to close in. My assists are Dark Harmonizer/Missiles/Cold Star. I don’t call Cold Star very much because Ammy tends to get caught if I call it outside of a corner, and I haven’t been very good at getting people cornered (which is my main gripe with the team, if I lose Morrigan and have to face a team who can keep Doom out, all I have left is the THC). Otherwise, if I have XF and a THC ready, I’ll do the THC and XF immediately. If I don’t have XF, I wait till my opponent calls an assist. When I lose Morrigan and Doom and I’m left with Ammy, I just Vale of Mist and go crazy.
Okay, let me tell you about why I’m currently losing my mind over this team.
After watching Chris G wreck shop while doing limited damage still, I was trying to think of a good 3rd to supplement Morrigan’s rushdown game who could also help her. I thought Ammy was a good fit. You can set up soul drains off it or missiles, so if you use one assist in neutral, you have the other one to fall back on. That would give you more damage and help you win the meter battle. It would also give you the doom/ammy THC…
Then I thought about it for a minute, and switched Morrigan to Shadow Blade.
Shadow Servant/Okami Shuffle THC.
Not gonna say anything else. Just…have fun.
Hit 960k with an advanced Magnetic Blast loop into Hyper Grav loop…still not TODing Wesker so I’m wondering if I should just DHC into Astral instead or if I’m stilll not mashing hard enough (mashing on pad is a pain in the ass).
I wish Morrigan still had Soul Eraser.
I just want to say that I am loving this team as an alternate or for days when I’m doing shitty with Magneto or Doom.
I’d be happy if Finishing Shower just wasn’t complete ass as a THC. I swear it makes my THCs do less damage.
Edit: On the whole Jeo note, though, I’m thinking about running Wesker/Dormammu/Morrigan, and I’d like to watch some Jeo play. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Well, Astral Vision is quite good if they need to chase you up the life lead so…